n elected President tomorrow," said Ev.

"That's just it--we did too good a job. And I think that's the way your
Tibetan quarterback wanted it." Cam tilted Ev's flask. "Sowles was a
cinch to go all the way, which would have meant all-out war. Maybe your
junior Fu Manchu figured he could pick up the pieces afterwards."

"How could he know you'd have a character like Sowles all set to go?" Ev
said. "Oh, I get it--precognition. It's fortunate that his crystal ball
didn't read as far as the outcome tonight."

"In any case, we'd better get your Pathan over here, and start
rebuilding your _Gestalt_," said Cam. "You won't hear from the
Panchen--he's undoubtedly constructing a new, all-Red unit right now.
After this bit, psi faculties, including telempathy, have to be
considered another weapons family in the Cold War ... a new set of
pieces of the big chessboard. So you're going to have to find a
substitute for the Himalayan Quiz Kid, and git crackin'."

"I'll consider your application," said Ev, giving his flask the _coup de
grace_; and the lights of L.A. rushed up around them like a huge
breaker--gaudy, garish, and beautifully comprehensible.

THE END

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Transcribers Notes:

Printer's errors corrected as follows:

Page 61, "veging" to "verging". (hysteria verging on the loss of
reason).

Page 62, "Quickly" to "Quickly," to fix endquote punctuation.

Page 63, "expperiments" to "experiments". (esoteric nuclear
experiments).

Page 63, "aides'" to "aide's" since referring to (a monkish aide).

Page 64, removed extra word: "an extra lead; which lead he attached" to
"an extra lead; which he attached".

Page 64, "millenia" to "millennia". (two millennia of history).

Page 64, punctuation: "SOWLES 'CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS' to "SOWLES' CHRISTIAN
SOLDIERS" (matches format of other headlines on page).

Page 65, "weakend" to "weakened" (weakened our defenses).

Page 65, "those-pre-eminent" to "those pre-eminent".

Page 66, added missing "." ( ... "with one large difference In the past"
... to ... "with one large difference. In the past" ... ).

Page 66, moved quote marks outside period mark ("Network.")

Page 70, "demoagogue" to "demagogue" (bloody demagogue).

Page 70, "course." to "course," (no one, of course, had foreseen).

Page 71, "Chorla" to "Choral" (Choral Guard).

Page 72, '"Amen",' to '"Amen,"'.

Page 72, "clauqes" to "claques" (the clauqes h